简介：
Education Level Linked to Nearsightedness
越近视，越学霸？
撰文/播音 凯伦•霍普金（Karen Hopkin）
翻译 蒋慧桢
审校 李轩
Nothing says “overeducated egghead” like a pair of coke-bottle glasses. But even clichés sometimes hit the nerd on the head. Because a new study finds that nearsightedness is linked to the number of years spent in school. The findings can be viewed in the journal Ophthalmology. [Alireza Mirshahi et al,Myopia and Level of Education]
“书呆子”的鼻子上不一定“都顶着一副‘啤酒瓶盖”’。但有时候，瞎扯偏偏会道出一些真相。一项新的研究发现，人们的近视程度跟受教育的时间长短有关。这个发现发表在了《眼科医学》杂志上。
In the past century, the prevalence of myopia—science-speak for being able to see only what’s right in front of you—has been on the rise. So much so that it can’t all be blamed on geeky genes.
过去的一个世纪中，近视——即双眼只能看清近处的物体——呈现出了上升的趋势，患者数量之庞大，使得我们难以再将病因归咎于所谓的“书呆子”基因。
To nail down the potential environmental influences, researchers focused on the classroom. They gave eye exams to nearly 5000 German subjects in a project called the Gutenberg Health Study.
为了确定环境对近视的影响，研究者将重点放在了课堂上。在一项名为“古登堡健康研究”的项目中，他们对近5000名德国学生进行了视力测试。
The researchers found that individuals with 13 years of education were more myopic than those who didn’t get past primary school. And more than half of those with a university degree could use a set of specs, compared to less than a quarter of the folks who quit after high school or secondary school.
研究者发现，相比起未完成小学学业的参与者，那些有13年学龄的人近视的程度更高。有大学文凭的人，超过半数都戴眼镜，而在初中或者高中就辍学的人，只有不到四分之一的戴眼镜。
All that learning takes a lot of reading. Which itself is associated with nearsightedness. Or the nearsighted may gravitate toward pursuits easier to see—like hitting the books. Either way, seems that being a good student may not require great pupils.
学习的过程需要大量的阅读。而阅读本身就与近视有关，得了近视眼的人，为了看得更清，总是不自觉把脸贴到书本上。不过，好视力，似乎并不是当好学生的必要条件。
（题图来源：http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/）
